RAT
What Is Remote Administration Tool? A Remote Administration Tool (RAT) is a piece of software that allows a remote “Operator” to control a system as if he has physical access to that system. While Desktop Sharing and Remote Administration have many legal uses, “RAT” software is usually associated with the criminal or malicious activities such as controlling remote PC’s, stealing victims data, deleting or editing some files. One can infect someone else by sending them a file called “Server”. If and when this server file is opened, it burrows itself deep in the system and starts to run in the background. Further, it may also send the attacker a message every time it’s active like when a computer is turned on. How To Spread Remote Administration Tool? Some RATs can spread over P2P (peer to peer) file sharing services (Torrents mostly), messenger and email spams (MSN, Skype, AIM, etc.) while other may tag along hiding behind some other software. The user installs som...